Cicero, Marcus Tullius (106-43 BCE) Cicero was an outstanding Roman orator, statesman and scholar born in Latium.
He was elected consul in 63 BCE. He managed to abort a revolutionary plot but executed some Roman conspirators without trial, which countered Roman law.
To avoid charges he flew into exile to Thessalonica (58 BCE). A year later he was recalled by the citizens of Rome but lost support from both Caesar’s and Pompey’s followers by equivocating between them.
Retiring in Rome in (46-44 BCE), he wrote on rhetoric and philosophy. Following the murder of Julius Caesar, he gave speeches against Antony (43 BCE). Antony’s military assassinated him in response.
His most accessible and perhaps popular work today is De natura deorum (On The Nature of the Gods) in which he discusses the opinions of different philosophers concerning various divinities.
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